Obama was the teleprompter presidency, but Biden’s was the autopen presidency. And he (or she) who controlled the autopen, also controlled the presidency.

After a lot of hedging and backpedaling, the New York Times is forced to admit this central fact in its article about Biden’s illegal pardons.

Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed. Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.

Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said.

A routine procedure indeed.

Biden agreed to some sort of general concept and then the actual execution, right down to the signing, is left to the staffers. That’s how this administration actually ran. That’s not constitutional government, it’s a coup.